German Figure Skater Pummeled On Twitter For Using ‘Schindler’s List’ Song

Nicole Schott performing Friday in PyeongChang, South Korea. Image by Twitter

By Ari Feldman February 23, 2018

Nicole Schott, a German figure skater, was roundly criticized on Twitter for skating to a song from the score of the famous Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List,” the New York Daily News reported.

Dozens of tweets about the performance quickly put the movie’s title on Twitter’s list of trending topics

When you realize a German ice skater just performed to a song from Schindler’s List. pic.twitter.com/eIcM3TSHIW

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— Diane N. Sevenay (@Diane_7A) February 23, 2018

The film depicts German-occupied Poland during World War II, and the efforts of factory own Oskar Schindler to save over 1,200 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps. The music from the film, directed by Steven Spielberg, was composed by John Williams and won the Academy Award for best film score in 1994.

Schott’s routine earned her an 18th place finish.

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Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.

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